Salacia venosa Ding Hou

Scandent shrub. Stipules triangular. Leaves thin-coriaceous, rather shining, elliptic-oblong, 6-13 by 2⅔-5 cm; base cuneate to attenuate; apex bluntish, sometimes acute; margin entire; nerves 5-8 pairs; petiole 3-7 mm. Bracts triangular c. 1 mm long, short-fimbriate or erose. Pedicels c. 6 mm, with elastic threads shown on breaking. Flowers green, few in axillary fascicles. Calyx lobes triangular, 2/3-1 mm long, obtuse, short-fimbriate. Petals broad-ovate,-elliptic, or suborbicular, 3.5-4 by 3-4 mm, entire. Disk annular-pulvinate, c. 1 mm high, c. 2 mm ø, slightly narrower and truncate at the apex. Stamens 3, c. 1 1/3 mm; anthers ± transversely dehiscent. Pistil c. 2 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules 2 in each cell.

In lowland forests and in sandy gravelly ground along the wooded banks, up to 225 m.